STUDY OF LAW STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL READINESS MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENT

The paper aims to highlight the significance of the motivational component of future lawyers' readiness for work. The study involved 82 students of Odessa secondary school and 106 students of the National University “Odessa Academy of Law”, as well as 19 university graduates. The following research methods were used in the study: a spe-cially designed questionnaire containing questions making it possible to assess the level of the respondents' primary motivation for work, Professional Readiness Inventory by L. Kabardova, a modified technique Labor Motives Struc-ture by T. Badoiev, and Academic Motivation Inventory by T. Ilina. It has been proved that the decisive indicator of the quality of law students' training is the formation of their stable motivation for work in the chosen field, awareness of the social significance of their occupation, as well as adequate professional expectations of the future profession. The assessment of the motivational component maturity of the respondents' professional readiness has shown that in most of the students it is developed at a low level, which is indicative of the need to conduct purposeful work on its improvement.